Hi, for Linux, hardware compatibility was ever and still is an issue. At SUSE we have the CDB, see http://cdb.suse.de to address this. It collects data of available hardware and tries to judge about the Linux support. The problem with that is that we do not have all available hardware and even if we had we were not able to test it completely. However the CDB not only acts as information source for users but also as an data source for the configuration tool databases like sax2 and yast and has a direct impact on the distribution quality as a result. Now that we are heading to an open and community driven development with openSUSE I am happy that we are able to contribute the entire CDB to the openSUSE project. The contribution consists of PHP webapp code and the database full of data ;-) I am confident that we as a community are able to provide a very actual and complete hardware compatibility list with a real high quality to our users. First ideas about how this project can go forward: First, let's discuss how we can achieve a high quality and complete list of hardware. I hope that the people who already worked on the cool Hardware Compatibility List in openSUSE (http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware) step in here and give as much input as possible and possibly help :-) Topics in that discussion may be: How do we ensure the quality of the data we collect from the users, is the CDB a good idea in general, are there other, non SUSE related projects that already do what we want where we want to participate, etc etc. Second, lets see if we can/want to recycle code from the former SUSE CDB and change it to do what we agreed on. Finally - implement a bit and launch :-)) The SUSE Inttools Team is helping with coding and administration if required but we would love to see an external maintainer who is acting responsible for the openSUSE CDB. So please speak up with comments and ideas and raise your hand if you want to code :-) regards, Klaas -- Klaas Freitag Novell - SUSE R&D - Internal Tools --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org